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There is no picture of the guy but I don't believe he was in a typical push type wheelchair. Let's say he was in a 300 pound plus his own weight motorized wheelchair instead. With that you can not just push one. With that you can literally pen someone to a wall. My wife did several hoods that way in a Target LOL. Depending on where the Joy Stick Control was located he could both maintain control of chair and the thought to be weapon.

Unless a person is familiar with all the different makes and models disabling one {disengaging the drive} takes guess work. Jazzy Chairs have a lever on the rear & a Permobil has the lever locate on the right hand side.

Yea understanding what a motorized wheelchair can do I can see how he could corner two officers. If he penned them by going frontward he would be well within stabbing rage.

The only advantage the officers could ever gain would have been if the could have possibly approached from the back which would not allow him to have harmed them.

From the history it sounded like he needed to be in a facility where there were several orderlies 24/7 there to assist. I've seen a 80 year old 4'10" woman with a cane give about 6 CNA's and Orderlies a good fight.

There's good cops, there's bad cops, and there is the factor that in the mid 1970's patients who needed to be in full staff facilities were turned loose on the street or in less staffed group homes. That so called human rights act done in the name of so called patients rights has caused a lot of patients with mental issues where they become a danger to others to be killed. The Cops do not usually have benefit of a persons mental illness history.